Measuring and feeding mechanism.



W. E. TAYLOR.

MEASURING AND FEEDING MBOHANISM.

AFPLIUATION rxLrrz'D 001223, 1911.

1,106,012". Patented Aug. 4, 1914.

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WILLIAM E. TAYLOR, or EAsrronr, MAINE, Assrenon. To AMERICAN cAN ooMrAm,

or New YORK, N. Y., AconPonATIoNorNnw JERSEY.

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To all whom t may concern Be. it known that. I, WILLIAM E. Termin a citizen of the United States, residlng 1n Eastport, in the county of Washington and State of Maine, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Measuring and Feeding Mechanism, of which the followlng is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements 1n measuring and feeding mechanism and especially to that type in which a vliquid is measured and fed in equal amounts to cans as the cans are fed along a table adjacent the measuring device and more partlcularly to a measuring and feeding mechanism for feeding olive oil to cans filled with sardines.

In the art of canning sardines it is essential that each can Which is filled with the sardines shall. receive a definite and an equal amount of oil and that no oilvbe wasted or fed when there is no can to receive the oil, as it is the custom of manufacturers to allow a certain-quantity of oil per thousand cans to be filled, in order to keep the cost nf production uniform. v Y

My invention consists in means for automatically carrying out the above desired results, said means comprising a table or platform over which is adapted to be fed. the can Vbodies filled with the ishby means of a conveyer, a measuring and feeding disk provided with a plurality of holes or recesses each hole or recess being vadapted to receive a definite amount of oil from a supply pipe, said disk being rotatable within a casing and the recesses or holes or compartments therein being adapted to register with an outlet hole over the path of the can bodies as they are fed by' the conveyer whereby `the oil lis dropped or allowed to flow into the canbodies and mechanism for rotating the measuring and feeding disk, said mechanism being so devised as to rotate the disk only when a can body is presented under the oil feeding mechanism.

My invention furthermore consists in improvements in the parts and devices and the combinations of parts and devices as herein described, shown; and claimed.

In the drawing forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 is a plan view of my improved oil measuring and feeding mechanism, portions of the table and conveyer being. cut away.- Flg. 2 1s a vertical section taken substantially on the line 2--2 of Specication. of Letters Patent.

.Application led October 23, 1911. Serial No. 658,210.

Patented Auge, 179514.

, Fig. 1 looking in the direction of the arrows,

and Fig is a vertical detail section taken on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2 looking in the dlrection of the arrows.

VIn the drawing 10 represents any suitable bed or table upon which the can bodies 11 are adapted vto be fed. Mounted on the table 10 is an endless conveyer guidin bar 12 1n which is adapted to run any suitable conveyer 13 having spaced fingers 14 thereon adapted to feed the can bodies along the table between the bar 12 and a suitable guiding bar 15. This conveyer 13may be operated elther intermittently or continuously puttlpreferably the same is movedintermiten y.

Fixedly attached to the table 10, preferof any suitable fastening devices such as the screws 25. The disk member 2() is adapted to slidably fit and rotate Within the` two members 22 and 24 said fit being such that the leaking of a liquid between the,joint is prevented. In the upper member 22 is' an inlet or supply opening 26 connected to any suitable supply tank (not shown) as by means of a pipe 27. The lower plate or ring V24 is also provided with a hole or outlet 28 at a point preferably diametrically disposed relatively to the inlet hole 26, said hole 28 bemg disposed above and in line with the line of travel ofthe can bodies as they are fed by the endless conveyer.

-The rotatable disk 20 is preferably provided with a plurality of openings 29 each adapted to register with the inlet or supply opening 26 and the outlet opening 28, each of these openings or measuring pockets or compartments being preferably elongated circumferentially of the disk 20 to insure sulicient time for allowing the oil to be fed thereunto during the Irotation of the disk.

' In order to rotate the disk 20 and to rotate the same only when a" can body is beneath the opening I` provide a spider or similar construction integrally or rigidly formed with the hub 19, saidA spider consisting of a `plurality of arms 30 corresponding in number to the number of openings 29 in the measuring disk 20 and these arms 30 are located in a plane slightly below the plane in which `the fingers 14 travel, to

thereby prevent disk 20 from being rotated when there is no can body present in front Y of the ngers 14.

As the can bodies are fed forward between the tracks 12 and 15 lit `will be evident that they will engage the arms or ngers() and rotate the disk 20, and that one of the openings 29 will register with the 4outlet opening 28 andallow the oil to drop into the cans and that also another opening 29 will register with the inlet hole 26 and receive its supply of oil. By the construction which I have shown I do away with all cams and complicated operating mechanism forro- -the star wheel, said mechanismbein casing and as speci ed.

i nism; a vertically lextending actuating shaft for said mechanism and` having a star wheel thereon; a conveyer having/a path of travel below the illing mechanism; a table adageed to support the cans as the same are ing moved by the 'conveyer and at such a level that the cans will engage and operate a so supported by said table, substantia y as specified. f

2. A can filling machine comprising, in combination: a casing having an integral circumferential 'iange and provided with an opening; a plate detachably secured to said l havin alinement with said first named opening; a measuring disk rotatable between and engaging the inner surface of both said casing and said plate and having a` plurality of openings therein adapted to aline successively with each of' said openings'in the casing` and plate; an actuatlng shaft .for said measuring disk; means for conveylng cans beneath one of said openings; and means for operatin said actuating shaft, substantially wniLiAM n. TAYLOR.

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